Created: Dec. 15, 2007; updated 25 April 2014
This is currently a 14-page chronology of UFO incidents
and events for 1981. Our thanks for these
chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1981
chronology from UFOE II), Dan Wilson (archive researcher),
and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]). You will
note the many foreign reports that we are now being able
to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting
those to us. As more come in, this page will be updated.
Previous chronologies (1947 to 1969) involved the
expertise of two other team members: William Wise (Project
Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog
of Project Blue Book Unknowns).

5:00 PM. Perhaps the best documented and most
thoroughly investigated case of physical effects from
a UFO occurred on this day in Trans-en-Provence,
France. At five p.m. Mr. Nicolai, a gardener, saw a
metallic disc-shaped object making a whistling sound
land hard in a garden. It was estimated to be eight
feet by six feet in size, and had four openings on the
underside. It also had a thick band around the middle
section of the object. The case quickly came to the
attention of the police and was soon investigated by
GEPAN, the French government's scientific team of UFO
investigators. The physical traces included evidence
of vegetation and soil heating, skid marks, and
circular ground marks. The chemical analysis revealed
that the soil had been heated to temperatures not in
excess of 600 degrees Celsius. (Source: Jacques
Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien
Contact, p. 104).

Jan. 8, 1981; near Flinders Island, Tasmania

11:00 PM. On a boat near Flinders Island two
men saw two nocturnal lights exchange light beams.
The sea was illuminated by the UFO display, and
the batteries on board the boat were found to be
dead. (Source: UFO Research Australia Newsletter,
May 1982, p. 7 citing Tasmania UFO Investigation
Centre, report dated March 6, 1982).

5:30 AM. A disc was sighted maneuvering over some woods
and landing behind some trees in Colle Maddalena, Italy.
A burnt circle of grass and some charred tree branches
were found at the landing site. (Source: ITACAT Italian
UFO Catalogue).

Feb. 1981; Quindira Brazil

2:00 AM. A woman was awakened by a loud engine type
noise coming from outside, she ran out and watched a
round object hovering nearby and emitting multi-colored
beams of light. Three human like beings cold be clearly
seen inside, one them glanced briefly at the witness
then the object rose and disappeared. The next day two
dead bloodless horses were found on the field where the
object had hovered. (HC addition # 1383, Source:
National Enquirer UFO Report Type: A)

Feb. 3, 1981; Ross, Tasmania

9:40 PM. A luminous ovoid object maneuvered at 30
meters altitude in Ross, Tasmania and paced a car.
When the car approached a hotel, it shot straight up
and out of sight. (Source: Keith Roberts, UFO Research
Australia Newsletter, May 1982, p. 6).

11:35 PM. The witness had parked her car in her
apartment parking lot when she saw a huge lighted
object with a ring of flashing lights. The UFO left
but a second smaller craft appeared and descended
with a falling leaf motion. The witness ran to her
apartment and apparently blacked out. Under hypnosis
she recalled that a light shone on her and she
suddenly found herself in a domed room with smooth
white floors, walls and ceiling. The room contained
a desk-like object with lights and an examination
table. She undressed and two beings entered, held
her by her arms and pressed her down on the table. A
third being examined her abdomen. The beings were
humanoid with light bulb shaped heads and with large
unblinking eyes, small noses and ears, and slit-like
mouths. They were thin with sloping shoulders, long
hanging arms with 4 long fingers and had grayish
skin. They wore metallic blue coverall uniforms with
an insignia of a triangle inside a circle on the
chest. Another being wore a reddish orange colored
uniform. They conversed with the witness by using
telepathy. (Source: Thomas E Bullard, UFO
Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery; Albert S.
Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 463).

Feb. 13, 1981; Fuentecen Spain

2:30 AM. The witness had finished closing up his
canteen, which was connected to his ranch house and
was walking back to the house when he observed several
golden lights on a nearby field. He approached the
lights but these suddenly rose up, circled, and landed
again, this time closer to his home. The witness went
inside and woke his wife and son, they then all
observed an object on the ground that gave off bright
flashes of light at times. At the same time his dogs
were going berserk. His wife became frightened and
went to bed. Later he heard footsteps and his dog
attracted him to a "figure" standing by the fence. The
figure was a meter and a half tall, square in shape
and metallic almost robotic in nature; it lacked a
head, arms or feet. The dog approached the figure and
began barking, and then both witnesses heard a strange
barking "echo" that seem to come from the figure
itself. The witness grabbed a flashlight and ran out,
he then heard a loud "crackling" sound. The figure by
now had disappeared; he then saw an object with
rotating red lights rise from a nearby field and leave
at high speed. A scorched area was found on the ground
by government authorities. (HC addition # 641, Source:
J J Benitez, La Quinta Columna, Type: C)

Feb. 14, 1981; Greensburg, PA

1:45 AM. A 17-year old girl was baby-sitting when
she spotted an object hovering at treetop level
about 50 feet away. The object was silent and had
three white lights forming the point of an
equilateral triangle. It appeared to be a triangular
object made out of a dark colored metal. Above one
of the lights there was a large transparent window,
separated by thin metallic-like partitions. A dull
beam of light descended slowly from the object's
bottom and to the ground. Inside the craft two
humanoid beings could be seen. These were described
as having very large heads, oriental like eyes, gill
like ears, and two holes instead of a nose. One
appeared to be sitting and the other standing behind
an instrument panel. The panel was white and had
several black and grayish circular controls. The
humanoid that was standing had a long thin neck,
smooth white skin, and normal looking arms; he
stared at the witness with pupil-less white eyes.
The witness became spellbound and felt compelled to
stare at the beings for 15 minutes, she then
reluctantly went back to the living room and did not
see the object depart. (HC addition # 724 Source:
Bob Gribble, Mufon Journal # 274,Type: A)

Feb.15, 1981; Franklin, OH

2:00 AM. A brilliant white light that began
filling her room awakened the witness. She got out
of bed and through her window saw a bright
hovering disc shaped object. Under hypnosis she
recalled being taken onboard by several seven-foot
tall humanoids with pointed chins and yellow cat
like eyes. She was examined onboard and was told
by the aliens that they had come from a planet
called "Antares." (HC addition # 1092, Source:
Brad Steiger, The UFO Abductors, Type: G)

Feb.18, 1981; Manzano Amargo, Neuquen Province,
Argentina

4:00 AM. Jose Fermin Albornoz, an illiterate
shepherd, awoke at 4:00 a.m. to the sounds of his
animals causing a commotion. Looking out from his
hut he saw a "beautiful" blue light hovering over a
field about 20 meters away. He woke up another
shepherd, but his companion became extremely afraid,
screamed out and hid under his blanket. He then
heard a loud buzzing sound that appeared to
originate from overhead. This was followed by
something like the sound of a diesel truck, although
the remote mountainous area of Manzano Amargo,
Neuquen Province, Argentina that they were in was
only accessible by horseback. Suddenly two short
humanoid entities appeared out of nowhere, standing
side by side. The beings spoke to him in an unknown,
unintelligible language. Terrified, Jose now became
confused and his next memory was of seeing a bright
light quickly flying away. He described the
humanoids as about one meter in height with
extremely wide shoulders. They seemed to have normal
hands and feet, but he could not make out any facial
features. They wore helmets and tight fitting, dark
blue outfits. During the incident some nearby horses
stampeded away from the area, apparently terrified.
Albornoz said the spherical light was bluish in
color, and it did not illuminate the surroundings.
(Source: Carlos Ferguson, UNICAT database, case
463).

Feb. 25, 1981; northwest of Tallinn, Estonia

9:24 PM. An Aeroflot YAK-40 airliner flying northwest
of Tallinn, Estonia was paced by two orange, elongated
objects at 9:24 p.m. The UFOs flew parallel to the
plane and then approached from 70 degrees to the
right. The crew saw four orange lights on the first
object and 3 lights on the other one. After three
minutes the first object executed a turn to the right,
then to the left. The second object repeated the
maneuver and followed after the first some six to
eight minutes later. (Source: Richard F. Haines,
Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 176).

March 1981; Birstall West Yorkshire, England

Late night, Jane Murphy had gone to bed late when
she suddenly woke up standing in a field feeling
very cold and wet. She then noticed a huge metallic
object hovering over the field, suddenly a group of
figures, as many as 10 approached her. The figures
were vaguely humanoid, but for some reason Jane
could not focus on them. One of the figures had a
cloth in his hand and put it over the witness face.
She pretended to be unconscious but they injected
her and she blacked out. When she woke up she was on
a bed in a strange room. Several figures were around
her communicating via telepathy telling her to look
at them. One of the entities was seven-foot tall,
human looking with totally black eyes. She was told
to bathe and then entered a plastic looking object
that fitted around her taking the shape of her body.
She was then helped back on to the table in the
center of the room and now noticed that all but the
tall humanoid with the black eyes had left the room.
The tall being proceeded to lie on top of her and
have sexual intercourse in a very unemotional
manner. After awhile the tall humanoid left the room
while, others, including female humanoids had now
entered the room. She was then given an extensive
gynecological examination. Later she was shown a
table covered with a number of brightly colored
pills of geometric shapes and was invited to take
one. She was given a tour of the ship where she saw
other humans. Her next recollection was waking up
back in her bed. She was plagued for the next three
months with a strange vaginal infection. (HC
addition # 1992, Source: Carl Nagaitis, Philip
Mantle, Without Consent, Type: G)

March 1981; Near Algeciras, Spain

10:30 AM. A truck driver was delivering produce to a
nearby village when he noticed strange lights on a
nearby field behind a row of eucalyptus trees. He
then drove his truck off the road and got out to
investigate. As the witness entered the field he
spotted a large metallic dome shaped craft on the
ground about 50 yards away. The object seemed to be
supported by three "telescopic" legs like
protrusions. It had three large round windows on the
front. As he attempted to approach there was a
brilliant flash form the top of the craft that
struck him, causing extreme head pain and partial
paralysis. He then noticed several man-like figures
sitting behind the windows, these were human like,
wore helmets and brown uniforms. They started
intensively at the witness, who every time he
attempted to approach he would get struck by a flash
of light that would paralyze him for a few moments.
At one point a ladder was lowered from the object
but no one came out. The craft finally left silently
at high speed. It first retracted the telescopic
legs then shot away. Some ground traces were found
on the site. (HC addition # 683, Source: J J
Benitez, La Punta Del Iceberg, Type: A)

March, 1981; Memphis, TN
4:40 PM. 5-min duration, two witnesses. Responsible
woman, secretary in an executive office, was out
driving, which she said was most unusual for her. She
had intended to stop for coffee when she sees three
shining objects in the sky, and so engrossed in them
drives right past the local Pancake House. Suddenly
the objects disappear into "what looked like puffs of
smoke." A minute later one reappears "directly over
the street in front of me, so close that I could have
counted the lights on the bottom of the object, had I
not panicked." She turns into the parking lot of the
nearby Admiral Benbow Inn, rushes to the door and
summons the night watchman. He also sees the object.
She would not go back outside but the watchman
observed it hover over her car and rise above the inn.
Sighting was reported to police. (IUR-3,5)

March 10, 1981; near Skipton, North Yorkshire,
England

At Carleton Moors, two uniformed police officers
observed a large glowing oval shaped UFO as it moved
over the moors. (Source: Yorkshire Post, The 5TH
ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by Detective
Constable 1877 HESELTINE British Transport Police).

March 30, 1981; Magny, France

11:20 AM. A metallic sphere descended from the
sky at a 45º angle and stopped over a house in
Magny, France. It then shot straight up and away.
A check with authorities showed there were no
scheduled balloon releases at that time. (Source:
Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1981).

March 30, 1981; Alton, IL
10:00 PM. Huge bright light went to very dim, had
lights on the bottom as it hovered over trees for
ten minutes. Object moved towards witnesses at
about 10 mph. Frogs stopped croaking and dogs
began barking excitedly. Then it was right over
the two witnesses. Object appeared circular and
was black except for the lights on the
circumference. The most unusual thing (other than
the fact the object was noiseless) was a large
circular opening in the bottom of the black disc.
Inside the opening they saw "this churning motion
of bright white light with yellow and orange
colors in it...like gases rolling around in
there." The UFO was more oval than round in shape,
and was smooth-edged. After about 20-30 minutes
the object took off rapidly. Shortly thereafter a
jet flew over, and shortly after that another
similar UFO was observed coming across the trees a
good five minutes later with the same results.
(IUR-3,5)

April, 1981; Peking, China,
drawing
Drawing of an object seen over Peking in April 1981,
identical to a UFO seen over
London in December 1980 (UFOs over Modern China
by Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens)

April 1, 1981; Mount Vernon, OR

7:30 PM. The main witness and a friend were driving back
home when they noticed three bright lights above the
highway. As they approached the top of a hill another
larger light appeared. The witness pulled off to the
side of the road and then saw a huge lighted bowl shaped
object. They both attempted to leave the area but they
apparently went into a trance and lost consciousness.
The next thing they remembered was sitting in their
vehicle and noticing something moving quickly away from
the car, moments later a flash of light shot up into the
sky. Later under hypnosis the main witness remembered
the object hovering over the car and engulfing it in
white light. Several beings now appeared in front of the
car. The beings were described as about five-foot two
inches tall, with large hairless heads, gray white skin
and huge dark almond shaped eyes. They appeared to be
frail and had long thin arms. Both men were then invited
onboard the object and entered through a triangle-shaped
doorway. They were then led in different directions. The
main witness was taken to a room and examined on a thick
table consisting of solid light. He remembers one of the
beings sitting at a console with a screen and looking at
what he thought was the space shuttle Columbia orbiting
the earth. (Columbia was in fact launched on April 2.
For some reason the witness was left with the clear
impression that these beings had the ability to travel
through time.) (HC addition # 1176, Source: Aileen
Edwards, On The UFO Road Again, Type: G)

April 8, 1981; San Luis Reservoir, Merced County,
CA

3:00 AM. The complete failure of an aircraft's
electronics, including the transponder, DME,
navigation equipment, and two-way radios, occurred
when a bullet-shaped UFO passed within 500 feet of an
airplane being flown by Mr. Dennis, a flight
instructor, while flying over San Luis Reservoir,
Merced County, California at 3:00 a.m. The electronics
recovered after the UFO had gone. The object was
described as 35-50 in length, with a pulsating orange
front end, and having a blue ring perpendicular to the
craft. The object was said to be whirling, and made an
instantaneous 90 degree turn. (Sources: J. Allen
Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 6;
UNICAT database, citing Tom Page, case 34; Dominique
Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 43).

April 12, 1981; Goodhue, Minnesota

April 12, 1981; Goodhue, Minnesota1:30 p.m. In a remote farm area, a civil engineer
and his wife encountered a two-foot diameter
aluminum-like disc as they drove by just 40 feet away.
In the early afternoon R. E. Schenk, age 56, and his
wife were driving south on Highway 58. At about 1:30
p.m. they saw the small disc, shaped like two saucers,
one inverted on top of the other. The object was
hovering just a few feet off the road about 40 feet
away, with sunlight reflecting off its surface.
Surprised by what he had seen, the former Navy pilot
turned and drove back. He and his wife then saw the
object at an estimated 2,000-4,000 feet altitude. It
climbed rapidly through the sky, and disappeared in the
distance, headed in the direction of Minneapolis. The
weather was clear, and visibility unlimited. It was a
bright, sunny day. (Sources: Richard H. Hall, The UFO
Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 26, 155,
165; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981, Don
Johnson). Drawing.

Between April 15 to 20, 1981; Catania, Sicily,
Italy

12:20 AM. Two police officers in their car saw a
strong reddish light descending from the sky. The
engine and electrical components to their vehicle
become inoperative as a saucer about 3 m in diameter
and 1 m in height lands on the street about 50 meters
away from their vehicle. A small door opened on the
saucer and the witnesses see two human forms emerge;
the figures began gesticulating and "jumping" around.
In the place of their eyes they have balls of light,
and sparks around their head and hands. The head,
compared to the rest of the body appears to be large.
After a few minutes the beings appeared to converse
among themselves. Then the entities jump into their
saucer, and the door closes. A few seconds later the
saucer rotates four times and accelerates up into the
sky emitting a very loud noise, it quickly disappears
from sight. At this point the shocked agents are able
to start their vehicle and leave the area. (HC
addendum, Source: CISU, UFO Notizie # 48)

April 15, 1981; Mount Sunapee, NH

7:25 PM. A huge metallic triangular object with
several red lights on the sides and very bright
white light on the leading edge flew over Mount
Sunapee, New Hampshire. It flew very low to the
ground, and passed over a car flying off to the
west. (Source: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the
5th Kind, p. 24).

3:00 AM. Traveling on a road, 3 women, 34-year old
Sandra, Viviane and Marie France see a horizontal
orange cigar-shaped object, hovering on the right side
of the road. As they drove to the top of the hill the
cigar vanishes. Soon a white sphere follows their
vehicle. The cigar appeared to have black dot-like
openings. Later under hypnosis Sandra remembered
seeing humanoids inside the object, described as of
normal size, elongated eyes, thin bodies and wearing
white coveralls from head to toes. (HC addendum,
Source: LDLN # 195)

May 1981; Near Toppenish Ridge, Yakima, WA
Late night. The main witness had seen for the past 2
months numerous slow flying UFOs and strange lights
over the area. That night she woke up to go to the
bathroom and noticed that the electricity was out in
the house. She felt a breeze coming from the kitchen
area and walked down the hallway calling for her
husband. He came to her and stepped around her to shut
the kitchen window. She then heard a sound similar to
a sewing machine, she turned around and saw the figure
of a "feminine appearing" man with small rounded
narrow shoulders, a thin head and thick turtle like
neck. She could not make out any eyes, legs, or arms.
The next thing she remembered was floating through the
air over the cornfields behind her house. The last
thing she was able to recall was a large whitish discs
shaped object with a dome on top hovering above the
cornfield. She remembers floating up into the object
through an "ultra violet" type of light, her memory
then ended. (HC addition # 1632, Source: Greg Long,
Examining The Earth Lights Theory They Yakima UFO
Microcosm) Type: G?

May 1, 1981; Clark County, WA

4:00 AM. A 26-year-old woman reported a large white
glowing disc-shaped object just 150 feet from her home
in Clark County, Washington. It made a humming sound
and flew off to the south toward Oregon. The incident
lasted slightly less than a minute. (Source: Greg
Long, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 16).

May 4, 1981; Minas Gerais state, Brazil

10:40 PM. a bright disc landed on the ground in Belo
Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil and then vanished.
A witness felt pulled toward the spot. Burnt grass was
found at the site. (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone:
Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 229).

May 12, 1981; near Clatskanie, OR

5:00 AM. A man and a woman, a truck driver and a
cashier, were driving near Clatskanie, Oregon. A large
delta-shaped UFO surrounded by a turbulent fog or mist
"like smoke from a chimney" followed their truck for
15 miles. It had a white light and two orange lights.
As it directed a beam of light at their vehicle the
truck lost power, and they smelled an odor like
antifreeze. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982,
p. 15).

May 14, 1981; in space, from onboard the Soyuz
T-4 spacecraft

Cosmonauts Savinikh and Kovlenok observed a strange
object from their space station. At first the object
was 1/2 mile away but it eventually approached to a
distance to 300 feet. Inside the cosmonauts saw
three brown skin beings with slanted bright blue
eyes. straight noses and bushy eyebrows. At a
distance of 100 feet, the witnesses thought that the
beings resembled mechanical robots. The beings
facial expressions remained quite emotionless. The
beings onboard the object requested close contact
with the Soviet craft but this request was denied.
Their craft shifted around erratically and from time
to time it would vanish, but then reappear in an
instant. Their craft seemed to be metallic, but it
had no doors no solar batteries, no optical systems,
no antennae and no marks or writing of any kind, it
was spherical with eight windows and 16 other
strange transparent illuminated spheres arranged
throughout the hull. The cosmonauts also noticed
quite normal looking armchairs, some devices, and
walls inside the craft. Using a pair of powerful
binoculars the cosmonauts saw the beings showing
them what appeared to have been a star map. (HC
addition # 3252, Source: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet
UFO Files)

May 16, 1981; near Cocklebiddy, Western
Australia

A couple named Winsome were driving in the
desert when they noticed a red glowing dome low on
the side of the road. It vanished as the car
approached, but a glowing light flew off to the
west. (Source: Australian CUFOS Bulletin, August
1981).

June 6, 1981; Little Rock, AR

1:00 AM. Two teenagers in Little Rock saw a small,
four-foot long rectangular UFO and a small disc
cavorting over a backyard garage and shed. They came
very close and the leaves on some trees were withered.
(Source: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1982, p. 6).

June 12, 1981; near Alice, TX

2:10 PM. Robert Gomez, a vacuum truck driver, was
headed west on highway FR 665 toward Alice, Texas
after finishing a job. His vehicle had about 165
gallons of water in the tank and no pressure. He saw a
bright object in the sky that he first thought was an
airplane. It increased in brightness and stopped in
midair. The object was domed disc-shaped, brilliant
white in color and with a dark ring around the rim and
another dark ring around its center. Gomez felt the
truck slowing down and tried to accelerate. The
truck's exhaust stacks were blowing smoke, but the
truck had apparently been lifted a foot off the
ground. Although his AM radio quit working, his CB
radio was still working, so he reported what was
happening to his dispatcher. Shortly later the UFO
disappeared into the clouds. Smoke was discovered
coming out of the water tank valve, which now showed
55 pounds of pressure on the gauge. He opened the
valve to drain the remaining water, but only steam
came out. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests,
pp. 313-314; MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982; Richard
H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year
Report, p. 276).

June 13, 1981; Chia-Li, Taiwan

12:20 AM. A spinning transparent cone, 3 meters in
length, touched down on the ground in Chia-Li, Taiwan.
It expelled a mist, then took off and shot away to the
north. (Source: Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs
over Modern China, p. 272).

July 4, 1981; Over Lake Michigan
Major airline L-1011 jumbo jet en route from San
Francisco to New York City encountered silvery
disc-shaped object (Volume II, The UFO
Evidence, Section III).

July 11, 1981; Dunedin, New Zealand

6:15 PM. An elderly woman reported seeing a metallic
football shaped object on a nearby paddock. It glowed
and had a bright light on its lower half. Two figures
were clearly visible within. One appeared to be
operating controls at a clear glass cabin on the front
of the craft, while the other was standing in a central
glass tube, which extended beyond the top of the object.
Both were dressed in gray coveralls and were described
as having white skin and no hair. A second witness later
arrived and saw the object and the beings. (HC addition
# 221, Source: Keith Basterfield, Mufon Journal # 177)

July 11, 1981;Port Byron, IL
10:30 PM. 5-1/2 mins duration. Girl Scout supervisor at
camp headquarters suddenly hears his dog barking in a
warning manner. Through the trees that screen the camp
swimming pool, he sees the bright lights. Unusual. Someone
slipping in for a late night swim would hardly turn on the
pool floodlights. The witness moves to an unobstructed
view of the pool and notices the pool lights are not on.
Instead, directly above the pool, and higher than the
regular lights, is a brilliant light. Suddenly the lights
go out. He hears a whirring noise that rises in pitch as
it apparently rises into the sky. When he turns on the
lights he noticed the pump is not running and the water
level is down three feet!!!! (IUR-3,6)

June 12, 1981; Alice, Texas
Early afternoon. Robert Gomez was driving a "vacuum" truck
west of Alice, Texas when he encountered a hovering
disc-shaped, and brightly-glowing object. As his truck
slowed down, hedepressed the accelerator to maintain speed
and reported that the exhaust stacks were blowing smoke.
The truck seemed to be about 1 ft. above the road. His AM
radio failed but he was able to report to his dispatcher
on a CB. The AM came back on when the UFO disappeared into
some clouds. Gomez
was carrying 165 gallens of water under no pressure at the
time of the sighting but the tank was later found to be
pressurized to 55 psi. Upon attempting to drain the tank,
no water came out. Only steam. From thermodynamic
relations it can be established that the temperature of
the water and vapor in the tank had been increased to
about 303 degrees F. Upon opening the drain, he reduced
the pressure at the exit to 14.7 psi, one atmosphere. As
the vapor pressure of the hot water was 69.7 psi absolute,
it would suddenly flash to steam and that process would
continue until the tank was empty. (McCampbell)

July 12, 1981; South Canterbury, New Zealand

12:50 AM. Five observers driving in a vehicle,
including a college professor and a social worker,
in South Canterbury, New Zealand saw a brightly lit
domed disc-shaped craft with gold, red and green
lights. It paced their car along a back road, making
no sound. The object had several brightly lit
windows and slot like indentations on its surface. A
heavyset squat figure was seen at one of the
windows. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 3;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty
Year Report, p. 26, citing the Timaru Herald, July
31, 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact
Database 1981, case # 2438, citing the MUFON)

July 16, 1981; Near Atcham, Shropshire, England

2:00 AM. Three women were on their way back home on
the A5 expressway when they all suddenly experienced a
strange mood change, they all sat very quiet going
into some type off limbo state. Then across an open
field besides the road four white and two red lights
appear. They seemed to be attached to a dark object.
The object was round and began pacing the vehicle. At
this point the vehicle seem to lose power and would
not accelerate. All the witnesses panicked and were
somewhat confused when the object and lights suddenly
vanished. There was an apparent time lapse noted when
they reached their destination. Later under hypnosis
one of the women recalled the car being floated up to
the sky and entering the bottom of an object through
two large double doors. She was held down on a
reclining chair and medically examined by several
4-foot tall figures, without hair, deep set dark eyes,
very thin arms, and strange noses. They wore green
cloaks. The second woman only recalled being in a
large room when several 4-foot tall robot like
entities with round heads, no facial features and
wheel-like feet rolled in, she was not examined. The
third woman remembers being hit by a beam of light,
she felt pain and floated into a room, there she
encountered two six-foot tall humanoids, one male the
other female, both wearing green cloaks. They both had
dark shoulder length hair, vivid blue eyes and
extremely white skin. They seemed very friendly and
appeared intrigued with the witness clothing. (HC
addition # 526, Source: Jenny Randles, Abduction).

July 18, 1981; Patras, Greece

Afternoon. Two students in Patras, Greece took a
photograph of a silver, saucer-shaped object
performing maneuvers over some nearby islands.
(Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
13718).

July 24, 1981; Zigong, Henan Province, China

Evening. A huge silent disc-shaped UFO was
seen for three to ten minutes by thousands over
Ningsia, China. It flew at a very high altitude
and left a spiral trail. It made no sound. About
ten minutes later in Qinghai, China a huge
lens-shaped disc with portholes was seen by
thousands. It flew from the northeast to the
southwest. Photographs of the object were taken,
and several drawings were published. In Zigong,
Henan Province, China at 11:00 p.m. thousands
saw a domed disc-shaped UFO for up to two hours.
(Sources: Wendell Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs
over Modern China, p. 226-227; Lumieres dans la
Nuit, issue 235; John Wallace Spencer &
Hilary Evans, Phenomenon: Forty Years of Flying
Saucers, p. 62).

July 25, 1981; between Valencia and
Barcelona, Spain

4:00 AM. A bright silver disc with six
round portholes was seen by the crew of an
Iberia B-727 airliner as it flew between
Valencia and Barcelona, Spain. It appeared
to be reflecting sunlight in the dawn sky.

Aug. 1, 1981; Newport, DE (Possibly
1980)
6:00 PM. On a clear night in a suburban setting, a
woman and her daughters, 12 and 18, noticed colored lights
as they left a store and drove home, where they apparently
observed the object pass over their home. They described a
reflective silver domed disc with the center of the disc
domed downward. Red and red-orange lights were flashing on
or near the rim. It’s size was estimated as larger than
their house, its lowest altitude at 500 feet or less, and
its nearest distance between 100-500 feet away [but I
would assume at the point the object passed over the
house, it was then overhead relative to the dog—jw]. The
object disappeared when they went inside to get their
father, who would not wake up. (MUFON UFO DATABASE,
Portion of Reports from the Files at MUFON Headquarters,
July 1999, Sequin TX, CD-ROM, Case Log #930104E by Raymond
Gurczenski).

Aug. 8, 1981; San Jose, CA

A teardrop shaped UFO with a spinning ring paced an
airplane off its left wing over San Jose, California
on this day. Instruments onboard the plane experienced
failures, but the effects ended when the object
departed upwards. The aircraft briefly disappeared
from FAA radar during the encounter. (Source: Richard
H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14).

Aug.10, 1981; Apple Valley, MN

3:30 AM. Russell Matson and another man were
driving down a road in Apple Valley when they sighted
a hexagonal object nearly overhead, at perhaps a
distance of 500 feet. It had two green, two red, and
white lights on its corners. It was estimated to be
between 60 and 90 feet across. The object pivoted,
making a 90 degree turn while stationary, then
descended and approached the witnesses. It made a soft
"whoosh" sound as the object passed, like gas escaping
from a propane tank. (Sources: Northfield News, August
20, 1981; J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter,
January 1982, p. 13; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO
Journal, November 1982, p. 3; UNICAT database, case
35, citing J. Allen Hynek).

August 16, 1981; Near Winnipeg, British Columbia,
Canada

Midnight, the witness was driving alone outside of
Winnipeg when he saw a huge UFO gliding over the
roadway. It had a central core from which were emanating
long and slender filament-like projections that gave off
an extremely bright, neon-like glow of a luminous
red-orange color. The filaments were at least 50 ft in
length each and numbered about two dozen, giving the
object the appearance of a jellyfish with spikes. The
"tentacles" were arrayed equidistant from another and
formed a conical shape beneath the central mass and an
inverted conical shape above it. The object then hovered
150 ft above a farmer's field. The witness parked his
vehicle then ran towards the object, which then glided
majestically above the roadway. Dimly outlined from the
glow inside the "windows" of the central mass were two
or three figures, whose features were not discernible,
but whose heads and shoulders indicated they were
humanoid in shape. The witness waved at the object,
which responded first with a flash of red light and then
a green one from inside the hull. The object then flew
away. (Right before this encounter the witness had heard
an "enchanting melody of an unknown source over the
radio). He has been involved in other encounters as well
(HC addendum, Source: Chris Rutkowski, Abductions &
Aliens What's really going on?).

August 19, 1981; Franklin, OH

Daylight. The witness was driving along a highway when a
brilliant silvery object descended over her vehicle and
forced her to pull off the side of the road. She was
then taken onboard by several seven-foot tall humanoids
and examined. She was able to describe their faces as
having large slanted yellow eyes, no ears, long thin
noses, pointed chins, and very thin lips. She was placed
in a room and saw what appeared to be electronic
equipment everywhere. She was given a glass of greenish
liquid to drink and later she awakened back in her car
unharmed. (HC addition # 1093, Source: Brad Steiger, The
UFO Abductors)

10:30 PM. A reserve police officer was driving near
town when he encountered a huge dark disc shaped
object hovering 15 feet above the roadway. The witness
vehicle suddenly stopped on its own accord. There was
a bright flash, then moments later two small beings
approached and took him from his vehicle. He then
found himself back in the vehicle 15 minutes later and
saw the dark disc rising rapidly, shining a beam of
white light towards the ground. The witness fired four
shots at the object and then drove home at high speed.
Magnetic cassette tapes in the witness vehicle were
partially erased. (HC addition # 695, Source: Bob
Gribble, Mufon UFO Journal # 280) Type: G

Sept. 1981: Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England

Over several nights over 20 members of the public saw a
cigar shaped UFO over the town of Todmorden in West
Yorkshire. On one of those nights two uniformed police
officers also saw the object. (Source: Daily Star
30/03/82, The 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by
Detective Constable 1877 HESELTINE, British Transport
Police)

Sept. 1981; Dusheti, Georgia (Russia)

In the evening the main witness was coming back from
school when she saw a man pointing up to the sky. She
looked up to see a ball shaped object about 3 meters
in diameter slowly descending over them. The object
stopped at about 5 meters above the pair. It was
described as white in color with some visible figures
on its surface. One of the figures was of a short man
like being, the other a rhombus and the third what
appeared to be a horse. After 15 minutes of hovering
the object left. Later they saw a wedge shaped object
rising slowly over the area. Others saw bright lights
in the sky. (HC addition # 3440, Source: GUFOA)

Sept. 1981; Meinau Island, Bodensee, Germany

Midnight the witness was vacationing in the area and
had camped on the south side of the lake. While he
slept that night a very loud noise awakened him,
looking out of the tent he saw a bright sphere
descending rapidly overhead. Through an open port he
was briefly able to see a humanoid figure apparently
wearing a green outfit. Then the craft rapidly
zigzagged away from area and vanished. (HC addendum,
Source: UFO Nachrichten # 279, In Project Becassine)

Sept. 12, 1981; Trino Vercellese, Piemonte, Italy

After having a late dinner with some friends,
Mauricio Cavallo decided to drive around Monferrato
hill in Trino Vercellese, Piemonte, Italy. He parked
his vehicle and proceeded to explore on foot. He soon
saw a bright football-shaped light that appeared to
descend into the thick woods. After checking where he
thought the light had landed, and failing to find
anything, he decided to drive home. At home he felt
uneasy and could not sleep. Inexplicably, around three
a.m. he decided to drive back to the site where the
light had come down. When he arrived he was overcome
by a strange malaise, and soon saw a reddish orange
yellow light floating about 100 meters away.
Terrified, Cavallo felt himself being levitated up
towards the light. His next recollection was of being
inside a sphere where he was able to perceive numerous
lights and movement around him. He then heard a
metallic voice in his head tell him not to be afraid.
Soon a tall woman, about 1.90 meters in height,
appeared in front of Cavallo. She had black hair in a
bun, Oriental shaped eyes, and she lacked any
fingernails. She wore a long sleeveless habit with
white boots. Among other things, the woman told
Cavallo that she hailed from the planet Clarion and
that her name was Ciama. (Source: Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1981, citing Moreno
Tambellini, Alieni in Italia).

Nov. 1981; Hessdalen, Norway
Localized concentration began, continuing off and on for
several years. Many structured object cases, photographs
(January-February 1984).

Nov. 8, 1981; Praglia, Italy

3:00 PM. Six boys were racing dirt bikes near a lake
when one of them fell and hit his head. Two of the other
boys went to assist him, when suddenly a bright green
light was seen descending over the surface of the lake.
Inside the light appeared to be a gray metallic oval
shaped craft that descended on telescopic like legs near
the witnesses. A door became visible on the craft and a
tall human like figure then appeared, his arms seemed to
be extended up into the air. It wore a loose fitting
silvery outfit, its arms were very long, and its feet
resembled oval appendages. The being seemed to have no
neck and a triangular shaped head with normal looking
eyes. The being proceeded to walk towards the lake and
then apparently was able to walk on the surface of the
water. Moments later he returned back into the object,
which took off at high speed disturbing the water on the
lake. (HC addition # 1523, Source: Mauricio Verga,
ITACAT)

Nov. 9, 1981; Esengul, Karasu Region, Kazakhstan

A large boat shaped, green colored UFO with an open cab
or hatch fell into Lake Zaysan. Four humanoid wearing
the same color green coveralls were apparently inside.
Apparently the craft and its occupants were damaged upon
impact. Local residents found fragments and called the
local militia. Inspectors from the KGB arrived from Alma
Alta. Fragments of the UFO and body parts of the
humanoids were taken to Moscow and hidden on an
underground bunker-laboratory. The remaining bodies were
concealed and buried in the area. Local residents were
told that a foreign spy aircraft had crashed and ordered
to forget everything. (HC addendum, Source: Anton "Cade"
Belousov, Soviet X Files list, High Strangeness Index:
8, Reliability of Source: 8)

9:30 PM. Dale Spurlock saw a red pulsating domed
disc at treetop level while driving near Darco. It was
seen near a small lake and some power lines, and had
four colored lights--a row of red, blue, green, and
amber lights--at the base of the dome. It made no
sound as it passed left to right just above the tress,
and then hovered. The object tilted, and two
headlights from the front of the UFO shown directly
down on his pickup truck. The object was revolving
counterclockwise, and left toward the east. The
truck's electrical system (alternator and battery) was
damaged. (Sources: John Combest, International UFO
Reporter, May 1982, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO
Journal, February 1984, p. 14; UNICAT database case #
027, citing John Combest; Richard H. Hall, The UFO
Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 205,
374 & 383).

Nov. (end),1981; Fuenlabrada, Spain

1:30 AM. The witness, Magdalena Sobrino, was out in her
yard hanging clothing when she noticed a bright light
approaching over the nearby Coca-Cola factory. The light
became bigger as it approached her position. It came
closer without emitting any noise until the witness was
able to notice what appeared to be a transparent
cabin-like section. Inside the cabin she could see two
figures, human in shape that wore gray colored
tight-fitting coveralls. They appeared to be tall, about
2 meters in height and thin. They appeared to be
standing up with their arms outstretched to the front
apparently operating some type of equipment. Stunned she
watched the craft fly silently behind a nearby building
and out of sight. (HC addendum, Source: Ciudad
Futura.com, Type: A)

Dec. 1, 1981; Hessdalen Valley, Norway

On this night a bullet-shaped object, a sphere, and
several nocturnal lights were sighted flying to the
north over Hessdalen Valley, Norway toward Trondheim.
According to John Spencer, this report was the first
of a four-year wave of reports from the Hessdalen
Valley. (Source: John Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p.
143).

Dec. 4,
1981; Hartford, CT
7:10 PM. Two groups of witnesses about twenty miles
east of Hartford, CT, saw strange lights or objects
travel at a rather slow speed from east to west along
a path north of the witnesses. Known as
The Case of the Flying Christmas Tree. (Complete
report by Bruce Maccabee). (On Dec. 22, 1989 there
was a similar event at Vernon, IN)

Dec. 8, 1981; south of Reserve, NM

7:30 PM. An enormous UFO shaped like an orange
ball, and estimated to be 750 feet in length, made
a number of turns in the sky south of Reserve, New
Mexico and then executed a ninety-degree turn near
Luna Mountain. The five witnesses said they saw a
jet aircraft chase the UFO out of sight. (Source:
International UFO Reporter, June 1982, p. 15).

Dec. 15, 1981; San Luis Del Palmar, Argentina

3:30 AM. A 42-year old Ruben Meneses was driving a
dump truck on a dirt road. Suddenly he observes a
bright object that approaches the truck, the truck
begins to vibrate, and he is filled with a tingling
sensation all over the body. He was not able to move
as the truck rises up in the air and apparently
becomes transparent. Meneses apparently then passes
out. Later he wakes up at a location about 55 miles
from where he was, originally. He does not remember
how he got there. Later under hypnotic regression he
remembered being taken inside a room with mirror like
walls, he was made to lie down on a cot-like bed. He
saw three short thin humanoids with dark gray skin,
extremely long arms and thick wrinkles on his
forehead. The little beings communicated with Meneses
by using telepathy. His next recall was of sitting
confused in his truck. (HC addition # 3461, Source:
Eduardo Alfredo Lopez, Type: G)

Dec. 17, 1981; Bladenboro, NC

2:40 AM. Daniel Edwards was awakened by the furious
barking of his dog towards a pine forest behind his
house. He walked out of the house and was startled to
see a huge fire like light, illuminating a mass clump
of trees a few hundred yards away. Believing that it
was a forest fire he ran towards the area and alerted
the rest of the family. As he reached the area, he
came upon an opening in the trees, there he saw a
large black disc shaped object with hundreds of small
red lights rotating in the center of the object, which
was slightly larger that a bus. Several dark, shadowy
figures were seen walking around the object. The
terrified witness ran away from the area and was able
to see the object slowly rising and leaving at high
speed. (HC addition # 2197, Source: UFO Journal May
1982, Type: C)

Evening. Two boys playing in a snow fort behind
their house heard a humming sound then saw a lighted
disc shaped craft with red lights shining on its top
and multicolored lights on the bottom fly overhead
and disappear from sight. Moments later as the boys
decided to go and slide down a nearby hill they saw
a four-foot tall human like figure float over a
nearby fence and come towards them. One of the boys
yelled at the figure and ran away, while the other
stood stunned looking at it completely unable to
move. The figure continued its path towards the boys
and at one point bumped into a clump of trees then
retraced its route. The boy that had been unable to
move finally was released from his paralysis and
joined his friend as they ran towards home, with the
floating figure close behind them. As the creature
reached the edge of the yard it stopped an opened a
diamond shaped red area of its "face" apparently
emitting a moaning like sound, it then began
spinning emitting flashes of light from its top and
bottom. Its head was described as small and round
with green colored wrinkled skin. Originally one of
the boys had seen a green "smog" or "cloud" on top
of the hill and several "shapes" within it, one that
seemed to be wearing a gas mask. (HC addition #
1169; Source: Dr. Ron Westrum, Type: C)